נוּר
fire
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Particle, Definite Article 13 times (76%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute 4 times (24%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 17 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5135 appears — 14 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 14 verses
- Daniel 3:6 נוּרָ֖/א n c bs det + ptcl def.art and whoever doesn't fall down and worships shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:11 נוּרָ֖/א n c bs det + ptcl def.art and whoever doesn't fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:15 נוּרָ֖/א n c bs det + ptcl def.art Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to you fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
- Daniel 3:17 נוּרָ֧/א n c bs det + ptcl def.art If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
- Daniel 3:20 נוּרָ֖/א n c bs det + ptcl def.art He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, [and] to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:21 נוּרָ֖/א n c bs det + ptcl def.art Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their [other] garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:22 נוּרָֽ/א n c bs det + ptcl def.art Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
- Daniel 3:23 נוּרָ֥/א n c bs det + ptcl def.art These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:24 נוּרָ/א֙ n c bs det + ptcl def.art Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste: he spoke and said to his counselors, Didn't we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered the king, True, O king.
- Daniel 3:25 נוּרָ֔/א n c bs det + ptcl def.art He answered, Look, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of the gods.
- Daniel 3:26 נוּרָ֣/א נוּרָֽ/א n c bs det + ptcl def.art n c bs det + ptcl def.art Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: he spoke and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come forth, and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came forth out of the midst of the fire.
- Daniel 3:27 נוּרָ֜/א נ֔וּר n c bs det + ptcl def.art n c bs The satraps, the deputies, and the governors, and the king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies, nor was the hair of their head singed, neither were their pants changed, nor had the smell of fire passed on them.
- Daniel 7:9 נ֔וּר נ֥וּר n c bs n c bs I saw until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, [and] the wheels of it burning fire.
- Daniel 7:10 נ֗וּר n c bs A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, נור (nûwr) means “fire.” Its uses cluster heavily in Daniel (100% of all occurrences). Spanning 14 verses in 1 book, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Daniel 3:6. Sharing its root, it stands alongside ניר, ניר and תנור. See the sense tree, 14-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5135 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,671
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,671 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 14 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 14 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Fiery 9×, Fire 7×
- American Standard Version: Fiery 9×, Fire 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fiery 9×, Fire 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fire 17×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5135 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5135 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5135 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5135 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- fire
Word origin
נוּר 17 n.f. et m. fire
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ניר (nîyr) (H5216) — lamp.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
נוּר
- as a verb, v. נִיר I
נוּר ²
- (v. נְהַר; cmp. מוּל a. מָהַל) fire. Targ. Job XVIII, 5; a. fr.—Ḥag. 13ᵇ, a. e. דינור, v. דִּינוּר. M. Kat. 12ᵇ, v. מַדְבּוּרָא. Ned. 62ᵇ עבדא דנ׳ a fire-worshipper (gheber). Ib. בי נ׳ fire temple, gheber-service; a. fr.—[Lev. R. s. 27, a. e. בנור ובזפת, v. מַרְזוֹבוֹת.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H5135 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נוּרָ֖/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:6 | 5 |
| נ֔וּר | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 3:27 | 2 |
| נוּרָֽ/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:22 | 2 |
| נ֗וּר | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 7:10 | 1 |
| נ֥וּר | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 7:9 | 1 |
| נוּרָ/א֙ | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:24 | 1 |
| נוּרָ֔/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:25 | 1 |
| נוּרָ֜/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:27 | 1 |
| נוּרָ֣/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:26 | 1 |
| נוּרָ֥/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:23 | 1 |
| נוּרָ֧/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:17 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5135, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 14 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
